Word: sizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...library are 60,000 books and pamphlets, and the number increases yearly. Building C, adjacent to the main Observatory building, contains the famous photographic collection of some 350,000 glass plates--a collection probably ten times as large as the next in size. The photographs were made partly at the Cambridge station, and partly at the various southern stations maintained by the Harvard Observatory during the past 45 years. All of these plates are in current use in the study of the motions, magnitudes, and variations of the stars and other celestial objects; they are studied not only...
...shape, size and attachments (so far undescribed) all concentrate the short waves from the transmitting bulb in a straight, narrow beam, much like the beam from a search light...
Four factors determine choice of true pearls: size, color, symmetry, and lustre. Size, of course, is immediately dependent on the length of the collector's purse, but the other three are judged by his taste and knowledge...
Thirty-two also is Jewish Greenblatt. Equal also are the color, size and shape of their eyes. Coincidal too were the accidents of Dr. Ben Witt Key, ophthalmologist, knowing both their cases. A sure eye surgeon, and a daring, Dr. Key thought of lifting the thickened cornea from Nordic Ferguson's bad eye and grafting on the peeled ball the good cornea of Jewish Greenblatt's bad eye. The Jew amiably agreed to the graft, the Nordic hopefully received it. And hopefully, with eyes bandaged, they waited for results...
...relation to brokers' loans, another factor for consideration, in computing their relative size, is the number and value of new listings. In the period from Jan. 1, 1924 to date, there has been nearly 23 billion dollars in new security listings on the New York Stock Exchange. The relation of New York brokers' loans to these listings is under...